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A new platform for screening astrocyte reactivity helps researchers uncover potential therapeutic interventions to treat neurodegenerative conditions.

Removing excess iron from aging mouse blood-forming cells enhances their regenerative capacity.

Researchers found that actin filaments can behave counter to decades-old actin dynamics dogma, changing how biologists think about cell movement.

Neurological disorders often have sex biases, and these differences could be due to altered protein expression in the brain.

A new method traces treatment resistant cells and predicts drugs that can make them more susceptible to cancer therapy.

A new study confirms reports of membrane-bound RNA molecules and points to their role in neutrophil migration.

Multi-targeted Cas13 screens help researchers avoid permanent DNA cuts and evade T cell exhaustion.

Astronaut Kathleen Rubins and her samples do not settle when it comes to space biology.

Researchers disagree on the number of genes in the human genome, in part because what exactly a gene is can be difficult to determine.

Neuroscientist Siniša Hrvatin explores how animals initiate and regulate states of dormancy.

In his lab, Hashim Al-Hashimi investigated how RNA molecules move. Along the way, he founded a company.

Mammary organoids derived from mouse embryonic stem cells could offer clues into mammary gland developmental origins and help researchers study breast cancer.